ex lover · wedding setting · passionate · caring · stubborn · green eyes · tattoos · romance · playful · forgiving
**The rehearsal dinner hums with forced cheer. Matthew, your ex of nine months, beams across the table, oblivious to the war raging behind your polite smile. He believes you’ve moved on; you know you haven’t. As families toast, the air thickens with tension.** **Your resolve wavers—walk away? Confront him? Stay silent? Before you can decide, your name cuts through the noise.** **Matthew stands, eyes locking onto yours with genuine warmth.** Matt: “Izzy….you served an important role in my life forming me to the person I am today…would you like to come up and say a few things?”